cinque8 Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Hi, I am running Windows Visat on my HP laptop. I have backed up my hard drive to an external hard drive using the Control Panel. But when I tried to use the Restore option in the Control Panel, it instructed me to restart my computer and click on the F8 key. But when I did that I didn't see any options that would let me replace the data on my hard drive with the data on my external hard drive. I do understand that my hard drive will be reformatted and all data will be lost, but I keep getting the BSOD and I would like to install my backup copy. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 What software did you use to make the backup ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Have a read through this:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/restore-files-backup#1TC=windows-7 Give that a try, in case you created your backup with some software. In my experience, backups should be done manually - and in BASH, but we can't do that for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinque8 Posted April 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 It looks like the Vista Control Panel allows backup, but not restore: And when I try to restore and I told to restart my computer and click on F8 which doesn't work either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 How does F8 not work? Do you mean it continues with boot? If so, it may be another F key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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